I feel like a lot of discussion on this topic comes down to apathy or just giving up. People say they'd start pirating their entire library if Steam ever went down, but that feels like more of a knee-jerk reaction than an actual plan. For Steam to simply cease existing, something critical would have to fail on a worldwide scale. It's not a realistic near-term scenario to be clear but I just...
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I just sat down. Who the hell starts a conversation off like this?
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I think you're also over-estimating how hard it is to flag something as not-necessary for the majority of users. Especially when downloading a fresh copy of a new expansion. If you know most players aren't going to be in the final boss lair for 3 weeks but still ship the game with that content it's not unimaginable to just allow the game to download those files in the background.
If anything, I think it's particularly impressive that Windows has as much backwards compatibility as possible going back to some of the earliest popular versions of windows.
At most, you could argue that BASIC and DOS are the biggest examples of us losing compatibility but realistically noone cares because they can be emulated at speeds a thousandfold the hardware they once existed on.
The most terrifying part about steam is them banning you arbitrarily or your account being hacked.
That's the real concern not some kind of compatibility nonsense.